Philobiblon

Anyone else love George Orwell’s A Clergyman’s Daughter? Anyone read George Orwell’s A Clergyman’s Daughter?

… just wondering, because a question I asked at the Literary London conference about it fell heavily into silence and disappeared (during a discussion of Keep the Asphadistras Flying) and I wondered why.

It is my favourite Orwell — a fascinating account of how women are encouraged to turn abuse and exploitation in on themselves, to the point of self-harm — and I think a wonderful portrait of English life. (There’s an e-text if you’d like to sample.)